Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 78 57
Rank change year-on-year -38 -21 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,319 1,522 3,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 3.60% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 3.85% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 879 1,035 2,763
10th Percentile £52,323 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,150 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,981 39,507 74,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.68% 93.49% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 35,808 22,230 56,250
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,887 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 1,205 £77,500 +3.33% 572
London +7 666 £87,500 - 269
Work from Home -24 578 £70,932 -1.47% 411
UK excluding London -97 548 £67,500 -1.50% 380
North of England -36 248 £67,500 -3.57% 126
North West -34 119 £67,500 -3.57% 70
South East -108 102 £75,000 +11.11% 105
Yorkshire -38 97 £69,653 -3.25% 31
South West -64 63 £65,000 -5.14% 47
Midlands -46 61 £67,500 +3.85% 45
East of England -15 38 £65,000 +13.04% 34
West Midlands -16 34 £70,000 - 23
North East -6 32 £65,000 +23.81% 30
Scotland -76 28 £62,500 -16.67% 19
East Midlands -64 26 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Wales -27 7 £55,200 +10.40% 15
Northern Ireland -35 5 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.59%) Apache
3 20 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 17 (1.29%) Confluence
6 14 (1.06%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.99%) JBoss
8 11 (0.83%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.76%) CMS
9 10 (0.76%) IIS
10 6 (0.45%) Appian
11 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.30%) Camunda
12 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.30%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) Liferay
13 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.076%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.83%) Maya
2 11 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (0.53%) Endur
3 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.076%) Actimize
7 1 (0.076%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.076%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.076%) Quorum
7 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.076%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 726 (55.04%) AWS
2 586 (44.43%) Azure
3 296 (22.44%) GCP
4 230 (17.44%) Serverless
5 172 (13.04%) SaaS
6 118 (8.95%) GitHub
7 107 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 101 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
11 70 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
14 49 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (3.41%) OpenShift
18 42 (3.18%) PaaS
19 38 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
20 33 (2.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.18%) Broadband
2 11 (0.83%) HTTP
3 8 (0.61%) AMQP
4 7 (0.53%) Internet
5 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.45%) Firewall
5 6 (0.45%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) DHCP
7 4 (0.30%) DNS
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.076%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (14.25%) NoSQL
2 174 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (9.63%) MongoDB
4 121 (9.17%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.61%) MySQL
6 64 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 63 (4.78%) DynamoDB
8 50 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.96%) Redis
10 30 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 29 (2.20%) Big Data
12 28 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (1.74%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.29%) Power BI
15 13 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (0.99%) DB2
15 13 (0.99%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.83%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 170 (12.89%) Git
2 122 (9.25%) Jenkins
3 83 (6.29%) GitLab
4 54 (4.09%) TeamCity
5 45 (3.41%) JIRA
6 39 (2.96%) Cucumber
6 39 (2.96%) JUnit
7 32 (2.43%) Selenium
8 30 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 29 (2.20%) CircleCI
10 22 (1.67%) Mockito
11 20 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.44%) Maven
13 13 (0.99%) JMeter
14 11 (0.83%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.83%) Vite
15 10 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
15 10 (0.76%) Postman
16 7 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 399 (30.25%) Finance
2 379 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 166 (12.59%) Banking
4 109 (8.26%) Law
5 103 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 76 (5.76%) Retail
8 68 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (4.47%) Financial Institution
10 52 (3.94%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.34%) Back Office
12 25 (1.90%) Games
13 24 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.52%) Billing
16 18 (1.36%) Advertising
17 16 (1.21%) Legal
18 14 (1.06%) Marketing
19 12 (0.91%) Front Office
20 11 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 450 (34.12%) Developer
2 350 (26.54%) Senior
3 260 (19.71%) Software Engineer
4 212 (16.07%) Architect
5 165 (12.51%) Lead
6 121 (9.17%) Senior Developer
7 118 (8.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (8.42%) Java Developer
9 102 (7.73%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (6.37%) Java Engineer
12 76 (5.76%) .NET Developer
13 56 (4.25%) Software Developer
14 51 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
16 45 (3.41%) Lead Developer
17 41 (3.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 41 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
18 39 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
19 37 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (22.82%) .NET
2 295 (22.37%) React
3 262 (19.86%) RESTful
4 225 (17.06%) Spring
5 212 (16.07%) REST
6 198 (15.01%) Spring Boot
7 192 (14.56%) Node.js
8 181 (13.72%) Kafka
9 111 (8.42%) AngularJS
10 100 (7.58%) .NET Core
11 82 (6.22%) gRPC
12 76 (5.76%) HTML
13 70 (5.31%) .NET Framework
14 64 (4.85%) CSS
15 63 (4.78%) RabbitMQ
16 59 (4.47%) ASP.NET
17 57 (4.32%) Middleware
18 55 (4.17%) Django
19 49 (3.71%) Hibernate
20 45 (3.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 381 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 220 (16.68%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (8.34%) Product Ownership
4 107 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.73%) Over-the-Top Content
8 36 (2.73%) Video\Live Streaming
9 34 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 33 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.97%) Blockchain
11 26 (1.97%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
13 21 (1.59%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.29%) IoT
16 15 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.40%) Linux
2 23 (1.74%) Windows
3 17 (1.29%) Android
4 8 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.45%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.076%) Fedora
8 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (48.75%) CI/CD
2 550 (41.70%) Agile
3 515 (39.04%) DevOps
4 504 (38.21%) Software Engineering
5 377 (28.58%) Containerisation
6 313 (23.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
8 273 (20.70%) Mentoring
9 262 (19.86%) Event-Driven
10 245 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 244 (18.50%) Test Automation
12 241 (18.27%) AI
13 207 (15.69%) Computer Science
14 182 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 162 (12.28%) Scrum
16 157 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 157 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
17 151 (11.45%) Clean Code
17 151 (11.45%) TDD
18 148 (11.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 442 (33.51%) Java
2 352 (26.69%) Python
3 281 (21.30%) SQL
4 261 (19.79%) JavaScript
5 254 (19.26%) C#
6 211 (16.00%) TypeScript
7 113 (8.57%) Go
8 42 (3.18%) Scala
9 40 (3.03%) PHP
10 34 (2.58%) Bash
11 32 (2.43%) C++
12 29 (2.20%) C
13 26 (1.97%) Ruby
14 22 (1.67%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.67%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.36%) Shell Script
16 15 (1.14%) PowerShell
16 15 (1.14%) Rust
17 7 (0.53%) Bicep
18 6 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (15.92%) Degree
2 137 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 73 (5.53%) SC Cleared
5 61 (4.62%) AWS Certification
6 48 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 40 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.06%) CISSP
13 13 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.76%) CISM
15 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.61%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.61%) PMP
16 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.45%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.76%) QA
2 31 (2.35%) GDPR
3 30 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 26 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.91%) NIST
8 10 (0.76%) NCSC
9 6 (0.45%) EMIR
9 6 (0.45%) GRC
10 5 (0.38%) IFRS
10 5 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 409 (31.01%) Docker
2 13 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 408 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 225 (17.06%) Terraform
3 88 (6.67%) Grafana
4 67 (5.08%) Ansible
5 37 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.82%) Kibana
7 14 (1.06%) Argo
8 10 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.68%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.45%) Puppet
11 4 (0.30%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.076%) MIIS
14 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 133 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.17%) Google
3 52 (3.94%) Oracle
4 36 (2.73%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.36%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.36%) SAP
6 17 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.21%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.06%) Software AG
9 14 (1.06%) Splunk
10 13 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.83%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.76%) Cisco
12 10 (0.76%) Databricks
12 10 (0.76%) IBM
12 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.61%) Guidewire